In animation, sometimes a Funny Animal who doesn't wear any clothing will, as gag, treat the fur that covers their bodies as a removable suit. This can be revealed in a few ways: perhaps a Non Fatal Explosion goes off, leaving our character in Ash Face and furless, with only Goofy Print Underwear on. Or, the character can remove their fur voluntarily by using a zipper that was never there before. It's almost always Played for Laughs. This can also provide a loophole around Non Humans Lack Attributes, hence the character will usually react in embarrassment after their fur has been removed. This also almost always tends to be non-canon, as the characters who remove their fur will also have been shown bathing or showering without having to do this. Of course, there are some exceptions.

There is a variant of this trope in which an animal character has pockets as part of his/her actual physiology. Those pockets are most commonly located on the thighs. Another variant involves animal lifting the fur or skin on his or her leg to reveal a sexy woman's leg.

Examples of Removable Fur:

Ren and Stimpy have revealed their fur to be nothing but a suit in a few different episodes, by unzipping to take a bath or go skinny dipping.

In the episode "Sven Hoek", Ren unzips the front of his fur to urinate on the "Don't Whiz On The Electric Fence" board game Stimpy and Sven are playing.

In Timon & Pumbaa, the eponymous characters show that their fur is this (they sometimes wear underwear under it). This pretty much changes what many people thought about the Lion King franchise, because based on this info, we can pretty safely assume that it goes for the whole movie cast.

In the short "Quiet Please", Spike the bulldog rolls up his arm fur like a sleeve, revealing an anchor tattoo, before running after Tom to pummel him.

Spike also takes the fur of his upper body off like a shirt and places it over a puddle for Tom and Jerry to walk across in "The Truce Hurts". He wears a red undershirt beneath his fur.

In "Love That Pup", Spike warns Tom that if he messes with his son Tyke one more time, he'll skin Tom alive. Cue Jerry framing Tom for messing with Spike's son once again. In the final scene we see Spike, Tyke and Jerry sleeping on Tom's fur, while elsewhere Tom spies on them wearing nothing but a wooden barrel with red long johns underneath.

When Tom runs over Mama Duck with a lawnmower in "Little Quacker", exposing her turquoise bra and bloomers, which she quickly covers with her now robe-like feathers.

In Animalympics the flamingo figure-skater's big finish has her spin around so fast her feathers are blown off, revealing a set of underwear beneath, which she immediately covers with a robe.

Digimon Adventure has a more serious example. Gabumon take his coat off to keep an unconscious Matt warm. When Matt wakes up Gabumon quickly grabs his coat and puts it back on. Followed by Matt saying "I didn't know you could do that."

Justified, in that Gabumon is actually a reptile, wearing fur from his evolved form, Garurumon

In the Tex Avery short "Lonesome Lenny", Screwy Squirrel pours hair remover on Lenny the dog, leaving him naked save for a pair of boxers. He bashfully covers himself up and makes his way to a closet where he keeps extra dog suits.

Avery's "Three Little Pigs" sequel "One Ham's Family", where the wolf, disguised as Santa Claus, is put through the wringer by a "bad widdle kid" pig, ends with the kid giving his mom a fur coat. She gushes "It's just what I've always wanted!" Enter the wolf, pink and naked from the neck down, a towel around his waist, grabbing it and saying "You and me both, sister!"

One of Avery's shorts at Warner Bros., "Cross Country Detours", was a parody of a nature documentary, which at one point features a lizard shedding its skin. The lizard gets on its hind legs and begins to perform a striptease dance while it sheds its skin, a scene rotoscoped from footage of an actual stripper they brought into the animation studio.

Looney Tunes: In "All Fowled Up" when Foghorn Leghorn accidentally blows himself up with a firecracker, the feathers on the top half of his body get blown off and he holds up the bottom half like they're pants without a belt. The 'pants' slip a bit and we see his underwear - lavender with yellow polkadots.

"Fortunately, I keep my feathers numbered for just such an emergency."

A similar gag happens at the end of the Leghorn short "Weasel Stop", when he and the weasel are run through a machine that removes their feathers/fur and bales it up like hay.

In Robert McKimson's "A Peck o' Trouble", Dodsworth the cat gets caught in a retracting extension ladder; when his kitten assistant re-extends the ladder to free him, his fur "suit" is torn off, leaving him in yellow boxer shorts.

Bob Clampett's "The Bashful Buzzard" has a scene where Beaky Buzzard attempts to snatch a sheep as he's flying past, resulting in his tearing her wool off and leaving her in a lavender slip. Red-faced, he averts his eyes while handing it back to her.

In Clampett's "The Wise-Quacking Duck", Daffy Duck prepares to get into the oven by performing a strip tease routine with his feathers. And, yes, he wears boxers.

In the Daffy short "Thumb Fun", a car whizzes by Daffy as he's hitch-hiking, leaving him featherless and in his boxers.

This also occurs with the hens and crows in the movie, Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island. The hens that Taz defeathers are shown wearing bloomers and bras.

An inversion occurs on Spongebob Squarepants. In one episode, Spongebob idolizes a sea cucumber named Kevin who is the leader of a jellyfishing club. In the end, the jellyfishers remove the hat from his head and places it on Spongebob, although the hat turns out to not be a hat at all. They just ripped off the top of his head.

In one episode of Spongebob Squarepants, Sandy takes off her fur to shower. Plankton, who was stowed into her treedome, steals the fur and uses it to masquerade as her in order to steal the secret Krabby Patty formula, leaving with Sandy with the embarrasing experience of being furless in public.

One gag in Léonard le Génie had the cat stripped naked after the disciple catches him. He angrily asks for his "clothes" back and puts his fur back on before resuming the chase.

Webcomic example: in Sabrina Online, Sabrina is apparently wearing pants that make her look like she's not wearing any pants, because it blends into her fur.

In the Popeye episode "Olive's Boithday Presink", Popeye grabs a bear by the wrist and punches it, leaving him with a bear fur coat in his hand.

Played with in a Nedroid comic; Reginald mocks Beartato for not dressing in layers like he did, then gets so involved in the rigamarole of taking off said layers that he barely notices when he's run out of clothes and starts taking off his skin.

Perry the Platypus from Phineas and Ferb is frequently like this. In one episode, Perry went to his lair via suction tubes and reveals Perry naked with his boxers.

This also happens to Lady Kluck from Walt Disney's Robin Hood, as a result of her being grabbed by the rear while charging at some rhino guards; thus exposing some pale purple and pale lilac polka dot printed bloomers, which shows that her feathers are her clothes.

This is actually a bit more sticky; some Pokémon are specifically stated as wearing clothing (such as the belts that Sawk and Throh make themselves out of vines), but others, while looking like they wear clothing, are more ambiguous on whether or not they are clothing. One of the more famous examples of this is the debate over whether the "pants' Lucario wears are part of its fur or not. Machoke was largely considered to wear belts but Word of God confirms that they're nude.

Also, what is a Gardevoir or a Gothitelle's dress supposed to be made from?

In the XboxremakeConker: Live and Reloaded, he's wearing shorts, so it makes more sense.

Happens near the beginning of Winnie-the-Pooh during the scene where Pooh is exercising in front of his mirror. When Pooh bends down, a seam on his rear end (he's a stuffed bear) rips open, causing some stuffing (which is probably the stuffed animal equivalent of internal organs) to fall out. He eventually realizes this, and as a result, Pooh immediately sews his rear end back together again.

Originally, some of the colors from Neopets (such as Royal) would make one of the Pets wear clothing once they've been painted that color. However, when all of the Pets were redesigned in a way so they can be dressed in "actual" clothing, these colors may actually now count.

Homestar Runner: Is the green part of Coach Z's body supposed to be his skin or some sort of jumpsuit?

Inverted in the Toy Story series films, what appears to be Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Jessie, and the aliens' clothing is actually their "skin"! (Nothing has been confirmed for the other toys, however).

Almost Naked Animals takes this to its literal extreme. The entire cast has mostly-bare skin and underwear.

Inverted with the lawn ornaments' "hats" and "clothing" from Gnomeo and Juliet. This is most noticable during the scene where Tybalt smashes Benny's hat off his head.

One M&M's commercial has the green M&M piece changing clothes (her candy shell) and being caught naked (she is a chocolate chunk).

Another commercial has the brown M&M clearing up a misunderstanding by explaining to some humans at a party that her shell is brown, so it only looks like she's naked. The red M&M sees her, think's it's "that kind of party" and tears off his own shell.

As revealed in ''Tokyo Mater'', a car's paint actually serves as its clothing, so not wearing paint at all is considered to be the automobile equivalent of nudity.

Blackarachnia's helmet from Transformers Animated is actually revealed near the end of the episode "Predacons Rising" to be an actual helmet, unlike those of the other Transformers.

The Super Mario Bros. cartoons portrayed Toad's mushroom cap as actually being a hat and not part of his body.

This trope is taken to its gory extreme in the PETA-made game Super Tanooki Skin 2D, which consists of a skinless tanooki chasing Mario around trying to get his fur back. It's as horrifying as it sounds.

The Classic Disney ShortWorking For Peanuts ended with Chip 'n Dale disguising themselves as albino chipmunks by covering their bodies with flour to hide from Donald Duck while at a zoo, but their disguises are ruined when the two both accidentally fall into water, washing off the flour on their lower bodies. The two chipmunks then make up for this by rubbing away some of the flour on their upper bodies to make them look like if they were wearing suspenders, therefore grabbing the tourists' attentions. When the zoo finally closes for the day, Dale celebrates by pulling on his "suspenders", leaving Chip dumbfounded.

The 1929 Mickey Mouse short "Karnival Kid" features Mickey removing his ears and the top part of his skull as if it were a hat and bowing to Minnie. Later when Minnie pays for one of Mickey's hot dogs, she pulls back the fur on her leg to grab a coin, and Mickey sneaks a peek, blushing.

In the recent Mickey Mouse (2013) shorts Minnie is in her classic, topless design with the skirt. There are a few jokes that her fur is a shirt.

In the novel American Gods, Shadow hitches a ride with a fellow who tells a tall tale about a deer that literally jumped out of its skin to escape a hunter, then was given a replacement knitted by local women.

In a Krazy Kat strip, Krazy claims to be "complitley clothed in a garmint of fur"—as opposed to Ignatz Mouse, who's hairless and therefore "nude". (Krazy feels embarrassed for him and covers him with a cloth.)

In The Angry Beavers episode "Sans a Pelt," a mishap involving a magic trick left Norb and Dag with no fur except head fur...and needing to get back to the dam.

The entire story of How The Rhino Got Its Skin is about this — the reason the rhinoceros's skin is all wrinkly is because some other animals filled it with sand when he took it off to go swimming.

An odd case in the Tuff Puppy episode "Hot Dog" has Kitty Katswell cooling herself down by taking off all her clothes and shaving her fur into a onesie.

In Oggy and the Cockroaches, not only does this apply to the mammalian characters, but also to the cockroaches as well. Oggy switches between having undergarments on underneath and none at all depending on the episode.

Despite the quote at the top of the page, Brian from Family Guy is a complete subversion of this trope; the aforementioned "pockets" incident seems to be a one-off joke, seeing as in a recent episode, he confirms, "I am nude, I'm just covered in fur."

Parodied in this strip of U.S. Acres. Lanoline and Roy roll back their sleeves, before realizing that they don't have sleeves and they just stripped the wool and feathers from their arms, painfully.

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